verb

As a big fan myself, I was glad to see so many folks just can't get enough kissing, necking, smooching, or whatever you like to call the delicious union of lips, tongues and mouths.

I fondly recall my early sexual experiences, where discovery, anticipation, and mystery were such a big part of the excitement, and you spent hours just necking before even thinking of heading south - if you even dared.

I was speechless, however, when I found that the pair who had been observed necking in the farthest corner of the room about an hour ago remained in the same position, totally oblivious to the happenings around them.

Because an appreciable fraction of the plastic deformation will be concentrated in the necked region of the tension specimen, the value of e f will depend on the gage length L 0 over which the measurement was taken.

He thinks that Shimano's pin, by necking down, allows the hole to constrict again after being stretched by the flared leading tip, while his damages the hole less with its smoother, gapless transition from leading tip to pin.

Phrases

break one's neck to do something

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informalExert oneself to the utmost to achieve something:he had to break his neck to make Price’s work look good

have the neck to do something

Imagine having the neck to take a week's holidays after sitting for a mere 12 days on their return from a 14-week summer holiday.

It will be interesting to see how many members of the Irish Government and the Opposition who have colluded with them will have the neck to come to County Limerick in St Patrick's week to shake the hand of Lech Walesa.

It was estimated that 20,000 Lions supporters had descended on Brisbane for the game but just one had the neck to get the exact shot he wanted at the big time.

Origin

In Old English the word neck (then spelled hnecca) was quite rare, and actually referred to the back of the neck. Our idea of ‘neck’ was expressed by the words halse and swire , which today survive only as Scottish and northern English dialect terms. A number of common phrases involve necks. Neck and neck, meaning ‘level in a race or contest’ dates back to 1672: it refers to two horses struggling to establish the lead in a race. Horses have been winning races by a neck since at least 1791. The same neck of the woods, ‘the same small area or community’, derives from neck used in the sense ‘narrow strip of woodland’, which is recorded from the mid 17th century, originally in the USA. People have used necking to mean ‘kissing and cuddling’ since the early 19th century, presumably from the idea of clasping someone affectionately around the neck. See also save